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Eleanor Vonne Brown / Communication Breakdown
May
10 to June 21, 2009
Opening
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 5 to 8 pm
curated by Elke Gruhn and Katharina Klara Jung
Everyday for 40 days Eleanor Vonne Brown (*1977) sent a page from her
publication 100 days since Gaza correspondent kidnapped from London to
Wiesbaden. She then presents the pages in the order in which they
arrived, thus starting a conversation about the complexities and
complications of communication, which runs as a theme throughout the
exhibition.
Eleanor
Vonne Brown is the editor of The Newpaper, a newspaper that
publishes the work of artists and authors, who use the language,
visuals and structures of newspapers in their work. The current edition
will be distributed during the exhibition and includes the work of
Kenneth Goldsmith, Michalis Pichler, Sue Tompkins, Tony Swain, Hugh
Mendes and others.
In 2008 she set up X marks the Bökship a publishing project
space
for independent publications, based in Donlon Books in London. A small
selection of artist’s books from the bookshop is presented
here.
The flag alphabet project of Danish artist Jacob Dahl
Jürgensen is
also to be seen, a variation on the nautical ship flags. In
collaboration with Jürgensen, Brown will display the flag
codes
with the words: ‘Permanent wave'.
project `------`(7) shows in
life-size, how letter by letter of the
word WORKOUT is written backwards on a wall by different performers who
are physically tracing the letter as if they were following a set of
moves in a dance or aerobic workout. In parallel the video Permanently
made up shows how the word READ is tattooed on the inside lip of the
artist. Phonetically the word Read in English sounds like the colour
‘Red’. Both the visual and the acoustic wordplay
can be
experienced and lead to conceptions of truth and fiction, beauty and
nature.
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